F1 » Prodrive F1 dream 'a dead duck'

Sorry to hear that the dream is over but happy that prodrive isn''t going into F1. IMO - The way that the sport is being run at the moment, I think it would have been a complete waste of money for them.

Considering the conditions they wanted to enter the top flight under, I'm glad they didn't get in. I don't wanna see teams in f1 without constructor status. Now they just have to do something about Aguri and Torro Rosso in that regard...

Time wasters

Shame would have liked to see another team on the grid, just for entertainments sake.....but does this mean that the space is available for somebody like Stoddart to come back in with his proposed team????

Customer cars and teams entering F1 for the first time with low budgets are a waste of time and do not offer any entertainment or spectacle. I agree with Frank Willimas when he said that these cars are so slow that they cause other teams to lose places. Very true.
One rule that I wish that FIA would introduce is that: "If a car is overlapped twice by the race leader at any point in the race, that car is to be withdrawn from the race by the stewards".
Being overlapped once is bad enough, being overlapped twice is an insult to the spectators and a nuisance to the faster cars.

Totally agree with Reno

Now let me remember, what car did Williams start their F1 career with?................Oh, was it a customer car? A March perhaps?

What all you guys have to remember is that it's not Williams trying to be fundamentally good to the sport (well it's still a sport at 1pm on a Sunday!) it's all about money, they don't want to share the TV rights and FIA "slush fund" with any more mouths than they can control.
Motorsport is full of cars being lapped many times, I suspect that Williams (for instance) was lapped at the begining of it's life. However Frank tried hard and they pulled themselves up. What makes you think that Prodrive would not do the same?
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Now let me remember, what car did Williams start their F1 career with?................Oh, was it a customer car? A March perhaps?

What all you guys have to remember is that it's not Williams trying to be fundamentally good to the sport (well it's still a sport at 1pm on a Sunday!) it's all about money, they don't want to share the TV rights and FIA "slush fund" with any more mouths than they can control.
Motorsport is full of cars being lapped many times, I suspect that Williams (for instance) was lapped at the begining of it's life. However Frank tried hard and they pulled themselves up. What makes you think that Prodrive would not do the same?
There is more to say but not enough space

Theres nothing worse than a slower car in the way!
They should bring back that percentage rule back for qualify session, and if your outside that percentage, then you dont race!
The rule should be 2 secs difference between 1st and 22nd on the grid after qualify sesson!
it may sound silly, but it be good if it was competetive between whole field of cars!

Quote "Theres nothing worse than a slower car in the way!" Ah, isn't that called overtaking?
If you kept the rule of 2 secs difference on Saturday night half the pack will have to return home.
Guys please relax, let natural forces determine the grid, heck why don't we stop actual racing and just compare our budgets, biggest budget wins?
We need rules and to encourage new entrants into F1 before it stagnates, remember again Williams started of by buying their chassis, there is nothing wrong with that!
Let's get back to the time when drivers can make a difference not team budgets?